@skjultster@25YearsAgoLive on the day of the attack he also immediately asserted on air that the EU had orchestrated it in order to tank the value of the dollar so the euro would take its place as the world’s reserve currency. can we please stop pretending he “predicted” 9/11 already jfc
@VykosLobster@Jay10_6 okay, but when he says “the establishment candidate” in this clip it’s very clear from context that he’s specifically referring to binface
@maybebi477@lateforthe80s this entire far-right film industry largely runs on the outrage generated by the rest of their propaganda. they make slop like this knowing their base will watch purely because it “triggers the libs” or some shit, whether or not it’s well-made or has any artistic value whatsoever
@mattlieb acting like it’s proof of some grand conspiracy bc they literally cannot comprehend the idea of international solidarity between oppressed peoples lol
@yazkhcn i think a lot of them just use descriptors—“the one with the bow tie” “the old scottish guy” etc. except for david tennant. everyone knows david tennant.
@LiamPrice413@Tales_TimeLord i was moving fast and it was the first link that came up when i was searching for the quote, i swear i use https://t.co/40gcVFcs3O 99.9% of the time 😭
The sharpest thing in the Roberts memos isn't the outcome. It's the distance between the public performance and the private reasoning.
Roberts spent years cultivating a reputation as a careful institutionalist. The memos show that in February 2016 he wrote, in his own hand, that the Obama climate plan was "highly unlikely to survive" before lower courts had touched it. Before full briefing. Before oral argument.
He wasn't assessing the pitch. He had already decided where it was going to land and was building the procedural route to get it there.
Kagan called the move "unprecedented." Breyer noted compliance wasn't required for years and asked why speed was necessary. Roberts responded the next day, the memos show, "irritated and blunt." The answer was cost to industry. Not constitutional law. Not procedural principle. Cost.
Kennedy wrote three sentences. We'll get there anyway. Five votes.
The shadow docket since that night has become the court's primary tool for consequential decisions issued without explanation. That's not drift. It's a feature that was built in that February exchange by a chief justice whose public face and private memos read like two separate documents.
@acequeenkingpin i’ve always firmly believed that the doctor has no idea how old he is and is usually just making it up. i think the first time someone asked his age after the time war, he picked a number and stuck with it until he lost track again.